# Allenbach

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{{Infobox German location
|image_coa            = AllenbachNaheWappen.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|49|45|20|N|07|09|57|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Allenbach in BIR.svg
|state        = Rheinland-Pfalz
|district         = Birkenfeld
|Verbandsgemeinde  = Herrstein-Rhaunen
|elevation              = 478 
|area            = 27.7
|postal_code               = 55758
|area_code           = 06786
|licence               = BIR
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 34 003
|website           = [http://www.allenbach-hunsrueck.de/ www.allenbach-hunsrueck.de]
|mayor             = Siegfried Burmann<ref>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1340000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Birkenfeld], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2019&ndash;24
}}
'''Allenbach''' ({{IPA|de|ˈalənbax}}) is an ''[Ortsgemeinde](/source/Ortsgemeinde_(Germany))'' – a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) belonging to a ''[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)'', a kind of collective municipality – in the [Birkenfeld](/source/Birkenfeld_(district)) [district](/source/Districts_of_Germany) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' [Herrstein-Rhaunen](/source/Herrstein-Rhaunen), whose seat is in [Herrstein](/source/Herrstein).

==Geography==

===Location===
The municipality lies in the ''Schwarzwälder Hochwald'' (forest) in the [Hunsrück](/source/Hunsr%C3%BCck), roughly 14&nbsp;km northwest of [Idar-Oberstein](/source/Idar-Oberstein) and 12&nbsp;km north of [Birkenfeld](/source/Birkenfeld).

===Constituent communities===
Also belonging to Allenbach is the homestead of Hüttgeswasen.<ref>[http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1132_201001_ur_G.pdf Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Amtliches Verzeichnis der Gemeinden und Gemeindeteile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125005812/http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1132_201001_ur_G.pdf |date=2015-11-25 }}, Seite 19 (PDF)</ref>

==History==

In 1265, Allenbach had its first documentary mention as ''Ellenbach''. At that time, it belonged to the [County of Sponheim](/source/County_of_Sponheim). In 1601, the ''Allenbacher Schloss'' (residential [castle](/source/castle)) was built through the conversion of the old Castle Ellenburg, and this still stands in the middle of the village today. In February 1898, the castle was bought by a salesman from [Idar](/source/Idar-Oberstein) named Max Purper. Near the castle stands the [Evangelical](/source/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) Castle Church, which since 1832 has housed a Stumm [organ](/source/organ_(music)). Until administrative restructuring in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate) in 1969, this Hunsrück village belonged to the now abolished Bernkastel district, whose seat was at [Bernkastel-Kues](/source/Bernkastel-Kues).

For 12 years, the Hüttgeswasen homestead at Allenbach was home to [Johann Peter Petri](/source/Johann_Peter_Petri), better known as ''Schwarzer Peter'' (“Black Peter”). He was a lumberjack and a charcoal maker, but also earned notoriety as a robber, becoming outlaw [Schinderhannes](/source/Schinderhannes)’s (Johannes Bückler’s) sidekick. It is said that in [prison](/source/prison), he devised the game ''Schwarzer Peter'', which is much like [old maid](/source/Old_maid_(card_game)).

==Politics==

===Municipal council===
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.<ref>[http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1340300300.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]</ref>

===Mayors===
The Mayor’s office, bearing the title ''Ortsvorsteher'' until 1932 and ''Ortsbürgermeister'' since, has been held by the following persons:
*1892–1912 F. Näher
*1912–1916 K. Keßler
*1928–1932 J. Purper
*1932–1945 K. Müller
*1945–1946 W. Fuchs
*1946–1947 K. Schmidt
*1948–1956 F. Röper
*1956–1960 A. Cullmann
*1960–1974 O. Paulus
*1974–2004 E. Steuer
*2004–{{0}}{{0}}{{0}}{{0}} Siegfried Burmann

===Coat of arms===
The German blazon reads: {{lang|de|In schräglinks geteiltem Schild vorne in Blau eine goldene Burg mit schwarzen Fenstern und einer Tür, aus der ein zweigeteilter silberner Wellenbalken zeigt, hinten rot-silbernes Schach.}}

The municipality’s [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might in English [heraldic](/source/Heraldry) language be described thus: Per bend sinister azure a castle Or with windows and door sable, issuant from the door a bend and a bend sinister, both wavy, argent, and chequy gules and argent.

The [charge](/source/charge_(heraldry)) on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side, the castle, is a device seen in Allenbach’s old 18th-century seal, while the “chequy” pattern on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the “Hinder” [County of Sponheim](/source/County_of_Sponheim).<ref>[http://www.allenbach-hunsrueck.de/ Description and explanation of Allenbach’s arms]</ref>

==Culture and sightseeing==
thumb|Entrance to ringwall near Allenbach
thumb|Ringwall information

===Buildings===
The following are listed buildings or sites in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate)’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:<ref>[http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Birkenfeld.pdf Directory of Cultural Monuments in Birkenfeld district]</ref>
*  Hauptstraße 50 – [Evangelical](/source/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) church; [aisleless church](/source/aisleless_church) with [ridge turret](/source/ridge_turret), 1780/81, architect Friedrich Gerhard Wahl, [Zweibrücken](/source/Zweibr%C3%BCcken); décor
* Hauptstraße 8 – forest house; small building with [mansard roof](/source/mansard_roof), partly clad in wood or slates, first fourth of the 20th century
* Hauptstraße 46 – stately house, partly slated, half-hipped roof, marked 1743
* Hauptstraße 62 – house with stable on ground floor, partly slated, about 1900
* In der Hintergasse 4 – stately commercial building; three-rowed stable, roomy barn with bonded roof, marked 1864
* In der Schied 11 – miller's equipment and dwelling, 19th century
* In der Schied 12 – former Sponheim residential castle; two- to three-floor building with hipped roof, essentially [late mediaeval](/source/Late_Middle_Ages), altered several times, especially in 1511 and from 1898 to 1900, architects Wilhelm Müller and Franz Rummel, [Frankfurt](/source/Frankfurt); characterizes village's appearance

====Other sites====
* [Celtic](/source/Celts) wall complex on the Ringkopf near Allenbach
* Castle church at Allenbach in the middle of the village
* Historic gristmill

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.allenbach-hunsrueck.de/ Municipality’s official webpage] {{in lang|de}}

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